Kyrene Corridor Rotary Club President Norma McCormick presented a check to members of the MdN United Nations Club, (from left) Claire Sarsam, Megan Kelly, Jessica Bass and faculty sponsor Robert Owen-Jones. In a world of unsure futures, mass revolutions and global economic hurdles, one group of Marcos de Niza High School students is taking steps [...]
Registration is under way for parents hoping to enroll their children in Kyrene’s first Traditional Academy, which starts Aug. 6 at Sureño Elementary School. Signups will remain open until classes are full. Dr. Marianne Lescher, current principal at Mariposa Elementary School, will replace Dr. Jim Strogen as principal of Sureño in the 2011-12 school year. [...]
Editor’s note: Stephen Seall, father of one of Corona del Sol’s standout varsity football players, shares his observations about the season and what he sees as the way it helped shape the futures of those to whom the experience will always make them proud to have been Aztecs. My son recently completed his second season [...]
Principal Brent Brown joined Corona del Sol students and teachers Dec. 3 when they rang bells at Fry’s Marketplace to benefit the Salvation Army. Katie Wilkinson, a junior at the high school, started a campus Red Kettle Club, believed to be the first official club of its type inAmerica. “I chose Salvation Army over other [...]
Gerri Shaw, longtime principal at Aprende Middle School in west Chandler, has announced her plans to retire at the end of the current school year. Shaw has worked at the school 18 years, including 10 years as principal. She faced particular challenges only two weeks into the school year, dealing with the after-effects of one [...]
Last week, by a narrow margin, Kyrene voters reauthorized a Capital Override that will allow Kyrene to continue to fund technology based needs and programs without exerting further strain on the district’s Operating Budget which has experienced a decline of over 10.5% and $11.3 million since it peaked at $106.4 million in 2008-09. We thank [...]
Desert Garden Montessori, at the northwest corner of Warner Road and the I-10, is not your average infant- to middle-school. For one, you’ll notice an all-organic garden as you enter the back of the campus, used for the students’ daily lunch periods. You’ll also immediately detect the different teaching style for students, allowing them to [...]
According to the American College of Gastroenterology, more than 60 million American adults suffer from heartburn at least once a month, while 15 million adults experience heartburn every day. Although heartburn is the most common symptom of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), patients may experience other symptoms, including: hoarseness or laryngitis, frequent swallowing, asthma or asthma-like [...]
Noah, a fifth-grader at Mirada Elementary School, shows his dad, Steve Lanouette, various projects he’s completed this year via an electronic portfolio he spent the past weeks compiling for parent/teacher conferences. Parent-teacher conferences took on a new look last month for fifth graders at Kyrene de la Mirada Elementary School, with students taking the lead [...]
In the not so recent past, local elementary schools had computer labs filled only with buzzing Macintosh computers with games that would seem weirdly ancient to today’s students. More astonishing to them would probably be the fact that the Internet didn’t exist, including such mass communication programs as Skype. Times have changed, though, and the [...]
